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Overview

Ryota Hashimoto is affiliated with the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry in Japan. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, particularly focusing on psychiatry and mental health, genetics, and cognitive neuroscience. They have published extensively in these areas, contributing to the understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders through a multidisciplinary approach.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The subfields they have worked in consist of:

  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Genetics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Key research topics addressed by Ryota Hashimoto cover:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Notable recent papers include:

  • Pathogenic POGZ mutation causes impaired cortical development and reversible autism-like phenotypes, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Association of polygenic score for major depression with response to lithium in patients with bipolar disorder, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • ARHGAP10, which encodes Rho GTPase-activating protein 10, is a novel gene for schizophrenia risk, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Effects of copy number variations on brain structure and risk for psychiatric illness: Large-scale studies from the ENIGMA working groups on CNVs, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Association between the superior longitudinal fasciculus and perceptual organization and working memory: A diffusion tensor imaging study, 2020, Neuroscience Letters

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Junya Matsumoto
  • Kenichiro Miura
  • Yuka Yasuda
  • Naomi Hasegawa
  • Kazutaka Ohi

Ryota Hashimoto publishes regularly in journals such as:

  • Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium

    T. G M van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • Cortical Brain Abnormalities in 4474 Individuals With Schizophrenia and 5098 Control Subjects via the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium

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  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • Searching for a consensus five-factor model of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale for schizophrenia.

    R.S. Wallwork;R. Fortgang;R. Hashimoto;D.R. Weinberger;D.R. Weinberger

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • Assessment of Response to Lithium Maintenance Treatment in Bipolar Disorder: A Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen) Report

    Mirko Manchia;Mazda Adli;Nirmala Akula;Raffaella Ardau

  • Neuregulin 1 transcripts are differentially expressed in schizophrenia and regulated by 5′ SNPs associated with the disease

    Amanda J. Law;Barbara K. Lipska;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Thomas M. Hyde

  • Evidence of novel neuronal functions of dysbindin, a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia

    Tadahiro Numakawa;Yuki Yagasaki;Tetsuya Ishimoto;Takeya Okada

  • Human dysbindin (DTNBP1) gene expression in normal brain and in schizophrenic prefrontal cortex and midbrain.

    Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Richard E. Straub;Benjamin W. McClintock;Mitsuyuki Matsumoto

  • Genetic variants associated with response to lithium treatment in bipolar disorder: a genome-wide association study

    Liping Hou;Urs Heilbronner;Urs Heilbronner;Franziska Degenhardt;Mazda Adli

  • Abnormal asymmetries in subcortical brain volume in schizophrenia.

    N Okada;M Fukunaga;F Yamashita;D Koshiyama

  • Lithium protection against glutamate excitotoxicity in rat cerebral cortical neurons: involvement of NMDA receptor inhibition possibly by decreasing NR2B tyrosine phosphorylation

    Ryota Hashimoto;Christopher Hough;Takanobu Nakazawa;Tadashi Yamamoto

  • The DYRK1A gene, encoded in chromosome 21 Down syndrome critical region, bridges between beta-amyloid production and tau phosphorylation in Alzheimer disease.

    Ryo Kimura;Kouzin Kamino;Mitsuko Yamamoto;Aidaralieva Nuripa

  • Expression analysis of neuregulin-1 in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia.

    R Hashimoto;R E Straub;C S Weickert;T M Hyde

  • Lithium induces brain-derived neurotrophic factor and activates TrkB in rodent cortical neurons: an essential step for neuroprotection against glutamate excitotoxicity.

    Ryota Hashimoto;Nobuyuki Takei;Kazuhiro Shimazu;Lori Christ

  • Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

    Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

  • A small number of abnormal brain connections predicts adult autism spectrum disorder

    Noriaki Yahata;Jun Morimoto;Ryuichiro Hashimoto;Giuseppe Lisi

  • Impact of the DISC1 Ser704Cys polymorphism on risk for major depression, brain morphology and ERK signaling

    Ryota Hashimoto;Tadahiro Numakawa;Takashi Ohnishi;Emi Kumamaru

  • Neuroprotective effects of lithium in cultured cells and animal models of diseases.

    De-Maw Chuang;Ren-Wu Chen;Elzbieta Chalecka-Franaszek;Elzbieta Chalecka-Franaszek;Ming Ren

  • Erratum: Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium (Molecular Psychiatry (2015) DOI:10.1038/mp.2015.63)

    T. G.M. Van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Masatoshi Takeda
Masatoshi Takeda Izumi University
Nakao Iwata
Nakao Iwata Fujita Health University
Masaki Fukunaga
Masaki Fukunaga National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Masashi Ikeda
Masashi Ikeda Nagoya University
Hiroaki Kazui
Hiroaki Kazui Kōchi University
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Hitoshi Hashimoto
Hitoshi Hashimoto Osaka University
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Takanobu Nakazawa
Takanobu Nakazawa Osaka University
Gary Donohoe
Gary Donohoe University of Galway

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